Huawei has officially started the EMUI 12 stable rollout for global devices. In terms of security patches, Huawei also focuses on the HarmonyOS update for its eligible devices in a regular manner.
Apart from the EMUI 12 and HarmonyOS, the February 2022 Huawei EMUI security patch is now live and it fixes 7 high levels of CVEs, 1 medium level of CVEs while there’s no low level of CVEs. It also fixes the 27 CVE’s announced in January 2022.
This security update includes the CVE announced in the January 2022 Android security bulletin:
Critical: none
High: CVE-2021-39620, CVE-2021-39623, CVE-2021-39629, CVE-2021-39632, CVE-2021-39659, CVE-2021-30353, CVE-2021-30319
Medium: CVE-2021-30313
Low: none
Already included in previous updates: CVE-2021-0956, CVE-2021-0769, CVE-2021-0978, CVE-2021-0979, CVE-2021-0981, CVE-2021-0993, CVE-2021-0996, CVE-2021-0997, CVE-2021-1001, CVE-2021-1002, CVE-2021-1003, CVE-2021-1016, CVE-2021-1017, CVE-2021-1018, CVE-2021-1019, CVE-2021-1023, CVE-2021-1025, CVE-2021-39657, CVE-2021-30262, CVE-2021-0675, CVE-2021-0961, CVE-2021-0922, CVE-2020-0347, CVE-2021-0717, CVE-2021-1030, CVE-2021-1031, CVE-2021-0977.
This security update includes the CVE of other third-party library patches:
Critical: CVE-2021-3760
High: CVE-2021-0356, CVE-2021-0359, CVE-2021-0360, CVE-2021-0358, CVE-2021-0357, CVE-2021-32484, CVE-2021-32485, CVE-2021-32486, CVE-2021-32487
This security update includes the following HUAWEI patches:
CVE-2021-39991: Unauthorized rewriting vulnerability with the memory access management module on ACPU
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
CVE-2021-39986: Unauthorized rewriting vulnerability with the memory access management module on ACPU
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
CVE-2021-37115: Unauthorized rewriting vulnerability with the memory access management module on ACPU
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
CVE-2021-37109: Security protection bypass vulnerability with the modem
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause memory protection failure.
CVE-2021-40044: Permission verification vulnerability in the Bluetooth module
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause unauthorized operations.
CVE-2021-40015: Race condition vulnerability in the binder driver subsystem in the kernel
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: EMUI 12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.0, EMUI 10.1.1, EMUI 10.1.0, EMUI 10.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0, Magic UI 3.1.1, Magic UI 3.1.0, Magic UI 3.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect kernel stability.
CVE-2021-39992: Improper security permission configuration vulnerability on ACPU
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
CVE-2021-39997: Vulnerability of unstrict input parameter verification in the audio assembly
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause out-of-bounds access.
CVE-2021-39994: Arbitrary address access vulnerability with the product line test code
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
CVE-2021-40045: Vulnerability of signature verification mechanism failure in system upgrade through recovery mode
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0, EMUI 11.0.1, EMUI 11.0.0, Magic UI 4.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
CVE-2021-37107: Improper memory access permission configuration on ACPU
Severity: High
Affected versions: EMUI12.0.0
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause out-of-bounds access.
